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mamão

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Etymology 1

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From mamar +‎ -ão.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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mamão (feminine mamona, masculine plural mamões, feminine plural mamonas)

  1. which breastfeeds a lot and often

Noun

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mamão m (plural mamões)

  1. (botany) sprout that steals the juice from the plant
  2. (zoology) animal that still sucks
  3. (zoology) yearling calf or donkey

Etymology 2

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    From mama (“breast”) +‎ -ão, from its shape.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    mamão m (plural mamões)

    1. papaya (fruit of the papaya tree)
      Synonym: papaia
      • 1887, Paulino Nogueira, “JARACATIÁ”, in “Vocabulario indigena em uso na Provincia do Ceará”, in Revista trimensal do Instituto do Ceará, volume 1, number 1, Fortaleza: Typ. Economica, page 323:
        O fructo é amarello e doce à semelhança de um mammão pequeno oblongo.
        The fruit is yellow and sweet, resembling a small, oblong papaya.
    Derived terms
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    Descendants
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    • → Hunsrik: Mammong
    • → Nheengatu: mamãu
    • → Rioplatense Spanish: mamón
    • >? Saramaccan: mamáun

    Etymology 3

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Noun

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    mamão

    1. Obsolete spelling of mamam.
      • 1576, Pero de Magalhães Gândavo, chapter 10, in Hiſtoria da prouincia ſãcta Cruz a qui vulgarmẽte chamamos Brasil [History of the Holy Cross province, which we vulgarly call Brazil], Lisbon: Antonio Gonsaluez, page 36r:
        Todos criã ſeus filhos vicioſamente ſem nhũa maneira de caſtigo, & mamão ate idade de ſete oito ãnos, ſe as mãis te entam nam acertam de parir outros q̃ os tirẽ das vezes.
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      • 1615, chapter XLII, in Marcos de Lisboa, compiler, Cronicas da Ordem dos Frades Menores, part 2, book 1, Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 22v, columns 1–2:
        Eſtas ſaõ duas tetas da eſpoſa, das quaes os pequeninos in Chriſto mamão o leite com que ſe criem & creſçaõ em ſua ſaluação.
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      • 1689, Abrahaõ Rogerio, Breviario de religiāo christāo, em maneira de dialogo, Amsterdam: Erdeiros de Paulus Matthyſz, page 118:
        Ajuntay o povo, ſanctifca a igreja, congregay os velhos, ajuntay os meninos, que mamão.
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